Etsy Treasury, No More Smuckers, Fast Food Nutrition Facts

ETSY

Wow look! I’m in a treasury! Thanks. This doesn’t happen very often.


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BOO… HISS…!

Well this is just dumb.

The sponsors of the Stars on Ice Tour, which include Smuckers and IMG Entertainment, have refused to allow 3-time US National Champion and 2-time Olympian Johnny Weir to participate because they claim that he is “not family friendly.”… (read the whole blog post here)

What do they mean by family-friendly? Their decision is clearly NOT based on anything to do with families. Sounds to me like this guys is ALL ABOUT the family. And if more people were as family-friendly as Johnny Weir, we’d have some happier families out there.

I think I’m done buying jam for awhile.


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HOCKEY

Gabe’s first Varsity game was cancelled. :-( Oh well, still one game tomorrow… Mon’s team plays San Jose A1 in Fremont.

Both kids play on Sunday but I guess I won’t be able to see Gabe’s ‘cause I’ll be taking Monica to Vacaville.


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FAST FOOD NUTRITION FACTS

Have to eat fast food once in a while but want to know what you’re eating (nutrition-wise, at least)?

Check out this great resource.



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Anyway, sorry I haven’t been around much. The usual busy week, but busier due to unforeseen circumstances.

I’ve got three necklaces ready to shoot and who knows… I may even get some silver creations in this weekend.

If not, I had an idea to list some sorely needed headpins on Etsy. Well, not sure they’re exactly sorely needed, but there isn’t anything similar listed at the moment… and it seems like a quasi-essential item to me. :-)

Later!

Ugh!

Leave the apartment at 6:45am, get home at midnight.

Ugh!

Muscle Memory, Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia, New Jewelry, American Pickers

Was reluctantly cleaning the kitchen today and found my box of enamels. Ha! Love it! Now I can experiment with some translucents.

Decided against any metal clay this weekend. Just felt like being lazy… beading and cleaning the apartment, doing laundry and looking at stuff on the internet.


MUSCLE MEMORY

Here is a good case for muscle memory. I got my small (61 key) electric keyboard out of storage and downloaded a couple pieces of sheet music. If I look at a new song, I’m pretty darn slow. But when I tried a piece I’d known REALLY well (like a Clementi Sonatina), my fingers totally still knew what to do. Freaky!

Not that I wasn’t INCREDIBLY rusty, but for the most part my fingers still knew where they wanted to go and where they wanted to go next.


TRIVIA

Here’s today’s useless info: Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia is the fear of long words.



NEW JEWELRY

Here are the second two pieces I listed (click on a pic for more details)…

One of a Kind Bracelet of Fine Silver and SRA Boro Lampwork in Blue


Aztec Stone of the Sun Sterling Silver Pendant Necklace with Coral and Resin One of a Kind



AMERICAN PICKERS

First time I’ve seen this show, but it’s fun watching people doing something they love. These two guys go around digging through junk, vintage items, and antiques in people’s garages, barns, backyards, etc. They make deals with the owners of said junk (that generally make the owners happy) and then turn a nice profit recycling this stuff to collectors.


Well, that’s it for now… I still have a lot to do… making jewelry, cleaning, playing piano. ;-)

TTYL!


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Two New Lampwork Bracelets and Weekend Ramblings

NEW JEWELRY LISTINGS

8:30 and I’m tired… calling it a day. I have two more things to list, but I’ll leave them until the morning.

Here are the two I did get listed (click a pic for more info):






SATURDAY

What else did I do today? I didn’t do any art clay… by the time I got around to it, I didn’t feel motivated. I think it’s the kind of thing I have to get an early start in the day with.

I took Gabe his passport so he could see an R-rated movie (The Book of Eli). And I took Monica her shorts… no clue why she had no shorts over at her dad’s house… other than… she’s Monica. :-)

Then I went to storage (which I need to get rid of, I know) and picked up an old keyboard I have. It’s not my favorite because it’s only 61 keys, but it is polyphonic I think. Gabe might like playing around with it… he’s taking piano right now in school.

Then I came home, finished my jewelry, took pictures, edited them… and pretty much wasted the rest of the day in bits and pieces. I don’t mind.

Mon had a Tech game. Tomorrow both kids have games.

I still need to make Mon’s flight for Seattle in May… gotta remember to do that.

Did I mention that Bear woke up the other day and refused to move? We had to start him on his pain meds again… for arthritis. He seems totally okay now.

Well, I guess I’ll get going now. I’m watching the Sharks game… and messing around with some beading.

TTYL!


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Wire Worker Huan Pham, Cats Translated Video, Hilarious Babbling Infant Video, REALLY Useful Auto Information, Master Goldsmith Alex Maryaskin

JEWELRY

Ooooo, got some cool stuff coming up this weekend. :-) I have the bracelet that I mentioned earlier, with handcrafted fine silver charms and Anita Pepper boro lampwork… and then last night I made a cool (but substantial) bracelet with yet again some boro lampwork beads, but this time combined with a ton of silver, charms, flowers, crystals, pearls and gemstones. The shades are purple, green and blue… nice color combo.

I have four enameled charms ready to be used, but I’m not EXACTLY sure what I want to do with them. I would like to make a pair of earrings, but I’m concerned because the enameled design is only on one side of the charms (back side is counter-enameled) and I don’t know how acceptable it is to have earrings with one-sided dangles… they’re gonna spin and turn while worn. Hm… I’ll have to think about this one.


FEATURED ARTIST

So here I am, wanting to introduce you to another artist I admire. This is Alex Maryaskin, a master goldsmith from the Ukraine, who’s main website is Art of Filigree… but he also has an Etsy shop: Art of Filigree.

Alex has kindly given me permission to show you some of his work here.

Now see, if *I* were to have a diamond ring, I would want one that no one else in the world would also have. I would love to know that someone designed their own creation and carefully crafted such a thing as this (below) with great joy for their work.



Here are some more pieces that attracted me to Alex’s work…







Alex also works with some of the coolest looking stones (and some AMAZING Opals)…





Now forgive the size of this (and I know the whole thing won’t fit on this blog page… you can see the proper photo on Alex’s website), but I have to show you this in any way I can…



Amazing, no?

Thanks Alex for permission to brag on ya! We are proud to say that Alex is a member of our international organization for Self-Representing Artists in Jewelry Design (SRAJD).


CAR STUFF

This is a cool site: Driverside. You can get estimates of your car’s worth. Here’s a place where you can get ideas of what service might be needed for your car based on symptoms. And this one is REALLY useful; estimates of what to pay for certain car repairs.

You can also look up safety recalls of your vehicles and/or sign up to be notified of future recalls.


And THIS is so worth sharing again. :-) (You gotta have your volume on!)



And volume necessary for this one too…




TRYING TO LOCATE ARTIST

Here’s an artist I’d love to get in touch with. His name is Huan Pham and he works with wire.




He has a book ”A Wirework Odyssey”, which I’m guessing is self-published.




Go to his blog and scroll through all the older posts. WOW! And drop me a line if he resurfaces.
:-)